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by xcskier56 1mo ago
I wonder if this is due to a lower rate of coaching. I don’t have a ton of first hand knowledge but most other endurance sports the athletes usually come up through well organized teams. Maybe the lack of organization (which is great for ot
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by xcskier56 2mo ago
When your AI consumes documents that are out of date it introduce bugs and incorrect behavior into the system. Code is the only source of truth that actually matters. The only artifacts outside of code that I don't explicitly end-date
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by xcskier56 4mo ago
Are these “features” just hooks to get people to burn more tokens faster? I’m at the point where deciding what we should and should not do takes a lot more time than actually doing it. More agents just means running faster in potentially th
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by xcskier56 4mo ago
There's always wtf, why did we add this feature, but at least in my experience, once a week or so I run into something in this category. Me: "AI, please cleanup/refactor/improve this thing" AI: "Roger that! I d
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by xcskier56 5mo ago
I could see this being used for fitness tests for cross country skiers. A very common exercise is med-ball slams. These aren’t a perfect analog to double poling but definitely close. Being able to track your one rep max force you can genera
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by xcskier56 8mo ago
Pure economics. In Minneapolis the railroad demanded a crash wall to separate the light rail trains from their trains. It runs 1 mile and somehow cost nearly $100 million. This is a 5x increase from the original estimate but still $20 milli
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by xcskier56 8mo ago
Here's an example. One of my friends works for a manufacturing company. He attended a protest. The next day ICE called his employer and he was informed that if he attended another protest he would be fired. All this b/c he had a s
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by xcskier56 9mo ago
SimpleCov in ruby has 2 metrics, line coverage and branch coverage. If you really want to be strict, get to 100% branch coverage. This really helps you flesh out all the various scenarios
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by xcskier56 9mo ago
Seems like a great opportunity to curtail betting. You want to leach money out of people, well you have to leave yourself open to let the pros do it to you.
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by xcskier56 11mo ago
My first startup we had to support IE 7 for a bit and then IE 8 until like 2017… I thought I had it bad then. I’m so glad I didn’t have to fight any older version
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by xcskier56 1y ago
My friend owns a metal stamping company. One of the things they make are the heat dissipation fins for radiators. That portion of their business has grown 20x in the last few years.
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by xcskier56 1y ago
The entrenched interests would fight tooth and nail against this but I think that the drive towards simplifying billing and pricing is a generally good thing. That being said, in my view, one of the fundamental problems with healthcare is t
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by xcskier56 1y ago
One of my favorite things when I was here was seeing an Amazon Prime logo on the saddlebag of a donkey. That struck me as a very weird collision of old and new worlds
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by xcskier56 1y ago
I think that really depends on your definition. But I will also contend that even splitting your system into 2 or 3 services if it's not for strong reasons will 100% slow you down and cause long term headaches. One project that I helpe
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by xcskier56 1y ago
Microservices make sense from a technical perspective in startups if: - You need to use a different language than your core application. E.g. we build Rails apps but need to use R for a data pipeline and 100% could not build this in ruby. -
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by xcskier56 2y ago
From searching the codebase, I can only find eval() used in the markdown and the specs. You’re totally right that eval()’ing unknown code is terrible but it doesn’t look like the gem itself is doing that. The usage of eval() is in a user wr
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by xcskier56 2y ago
Iceland has boiling hot water at the surface and so doesn’t need to drill far to reach hot rocks do to all the volcanism there. This does not apply to the vast majority of the world
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by xcskier56 2y ago
Am I missing something... it looks like the chainring is able to spin independently of the pedals, as if they moved the freewheel from the rear hub to the bottom bracket. Without that this would never work like he demonstrates. I've ne
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by xcskier56 2y ago
We use a gem called olive branch. Yes it’s going to give you a performance hit, but it keeps you sane which is very worthwhile
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by xcskier56 2y ago
But as far as I know, one Merlin engine produces more thrust than the empty booster weighs which means they have to time things perfectly to get to zero velocity exactly at the ground. Super heavy can hover and even go down by throttling do
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by xcskier56 2y ago
Traveling from a fairly walkable, but still car dependent midwestern city to NYC and also Europe in the last few months, it's amazing how much our living environment contributes. My first day in NYC and Europe I put in about 14k steps
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by xcskier56 2y ago
I've been a rails dev for over a decade... love the framework and the language. About a year ago we started a client project where they had a fractional CTO that wanted to do the API & UI in typescript and so we settled on Nest.JS.
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by xcskier56 2y ago
Reminds me of hurricane Irene in Vermont. They got less rain but some areas got 7" in a short timespan and b/c of the mountains and narrow valleys it decimated some towns. I went to help cleanup and in one place a tiny 50' wi
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by xcskier56 2y ago
I think US internet would give you a run for your money on best ISP in the country. Been doing gigabit symmetrical for probably close to 10 years at very reasonable prices. When I called customer support about having a static IP, just ended
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by xcskier56 2y ago
Yep! And a slight oddity is that at least the group I’ve worked with at Swiss timing is primarily Germans. I worked with them for XC Skiing events but I think they are also the ones who do track. There are multiple teams within Swiss timing
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by xcskier56 2y ago
This is why you’ll see the finish times in track move a little bit from the immediate unofficial time to the final time. A computer selects which frame was the finish and then someone on the timing crew will move the “line” a bit to exactly
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by xcskier56 2y ago
Through axels have become a very convenient excuse for bike changes. Watching Cavendish have his wheels changed in one of the early stages this year was so slow. It took a guy with a drill like a minute plus to do front and rear wheels.
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by xcskier56 2y ago
It's a bit of both. If you're an athlete being tested at that level, you have to keep your country's antidoping agency informed of your whereabouts at all times. They will randomly send testers to wherever you are and you hav
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by xcskier56 2y ago
I'm not talking at the higher organism level, I'm talking at the very low-level chemistry in mitochondria. Glucose is "easier" to produce energy out of and so that happens preferentially from a chemistry perspective. You
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by xcskier56 2y ago
My biochem is a little rusty but basically your body can create glucose (carbs) from amino acids (proteins) in a process called gluconeogenesis. Because your body will preferentially use glucose over fat and ketones for fuel, it will priori

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